Professionals attend many conferences round the year on various topics. Currently it is the season of Data Protection in India and multiple conferences are being held at different locations.
For those who attend a paid conference where there is a “Delegate Fee” often wonder what do they take from the conference.
There are one class of attendees whose main purpose of attending a conference is networking with the peers and thereby enhancing their business prospects or employment opportunities. There is another class of participants who believe that attending a conference is for “Knowledge” and every hour spent is helpful in improving themselves. The concept of allotting CPE hours is based on this principle that some learning does take place.
FDPPI which has been advocating “Valuation of Data” in its compliance guidance, has been focussing on this “Knowledge” part of a conference in its events like the IDPS 2024 so that there is “Value for Money” for the participants.
Hence the two day program on November 30 and December 1 is meant to provide nearly 12+ hours of conference time (excluding lunch and tea breaks) involving listening to Key Note and Panel Discussions. Accordingly CPE hours are also allocated to the registered participants.
What is more important in the case of FDPPI conference is that in addition to the 12 hours of conference time, participants are provided with “Focus Group Sessions” of around 6 hours at the conference venue itself and an additional Virtual keynotes of another 4-6 hours. As a result, apart from the main conference time of around 12 hours, another 6 hours are being offered without any additional price.
The delegate fee of Rs 3000/- therefore covers nearly 18 hours of knowledge sharing time. If we consider that each knowledge hour in the conference is worth Rs 1000 and each focus group hour session is worth at least Rs 2000/- we are talking of a total value of Rs 12000+12000 equal to Rs 24000. This is a value multiple of 8 times on the delegate fee paid.
Between now and the conference time, we are trying to add another 12 hours of recorded videos so that the value multiple is raised further to around 12 times, valuing the virtual sessions at Rs 1000/- per hour.
FDPPI is proud that as a Section 8 company, it is its commitment to the Data Protection Community to provide such value addition.
For more information, visit www.idps2024.in
